Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references: Senator Blair's "Temperance Movement," chapters 16 and 17; Dr. Lees' "Liquor Traffic;" North American Review...
...Immigration is injurious to the moral condition of the United States. (a) Our work hourses and prisons are filled by those of foreign extraction.- N. Am. Rev., Jan., 1884. (b) They form the liquor power.- J. D. Strong, "Our Country," p. 42; Compendium of the tenth Census...
...temperance was in the hands of unreasonable and irrational men, who by their immoderate methods, turned away observing men. They taught that without total abstinence was the greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow in this opinion. In the speaker's college days men considered it necessary to take stimulants in order...
...cent. liquor law went into effect in Cambridge on Monday. Adam's Welsh rarebits are now made with milk instead of beer, and even the innocent ginger ale is barred...
...primary objects of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are beneficial aid, charity and mutual improvement-(a) Engineers of intelligence and good character only may be admitted to the Brotherhood. (b) Members who engage in liquor selling or illegal business are disqualified for membership: McNeil's Labor Movement in America; Constitution of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers...